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Photos: Shopping just got high-tech
Photo Contactless payments are gradually becoming a reality, mainly through plastic cards. The device is supplied by Company Cards. They could be used for things such as loyalty cards in stores or membership cards in leisure organisations such as gyms. [27 Jun 2008]
Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic
News It found plastic cards accounted for 65 per cent of all UK spending last year, rising by 11 per cent in value in 2007. She said in a statement: "We are becoming increasingly reliant on our plastic cards at retailers as they offer us convenience... [12 May 2008]
Top 10 financial services stories of the year
News This is after a major regulatory reform has been accomplished and plastic cards make more in-roads into cash payments. Tap and go' plastic arrives in London Gartner's forebodings for cash were made real with a number of commitments from credit card... [17 Dec 2007]
O2 Tube trial takes mobile payments underground
News However, the Barclaycard and Visa representatives at the launch were keen to stress they see mobile wallets as "entirely complementary" to plastic. O2's vision is all these different cards will end up being apps in your phone, turning it into a... [28 Nov 2007]
Online shoppers think plastic is fantastic for Xmas
News This is around three times as many as their counterparts willing to pay with plastic in Germany and the UK, and brings the average of online consumers using credit cards over Christmas to 41 per cent. [14 Nov 2007]
Online cash payments on the cards?
News Add to this the millions of people who do not have a bank account and the necessary plastic cards to buy online. But when HMV ran an online promotion for the band McFly to its great surprise it failed to generate the expected revenue because it had... [22 Oct 2007]
'Tap and go' plastic arrives in London
News The MasterCard PayPass and Maestro PayPass contactless cards allow consumers to buy items costing less than £10 by simply waving their debit or credit card in front of a reader. In a similar vein to London Underground's Oyster Card, contactless... [04 Sep 2007]
Would you credit it? The debit card turns 20
News The growth in popularity of debit cards has outstripped that of the credit card, with 85 per cent of adults possessing a debit card, against 66 per cent who have a credit or charge card. Nine months after the official launch of the card, the bank... [01 Jun 2007]
Visa to kick off contactless cards this autumn
News Barclaycard, Transport for London and Visa teamed up to develop the tech to put contactless payments and Oyster card functionality together on the country's plastic last year. After introducing the Oyster card-style contactless payment tech into... [04 May 2007]
Barclays targets taxis with wave-and-pay tech
News After introducing Oyster card-style contactless payments functionality into its plastic, Barclays has been working on a contactless system for taxis. The pair have developed a showcase cab as part of Barclays' ongoing trial to add Visa 'wave and... [27 Apr 2007]
Leader: Why cash will be weighing us down for years
Leader There's also no doubt cheques and postal orders are slowly getting consigned to the history books as society gets ever more reliant on fantastic plastic - but could cash really be done for so soon? And sure, in the last decade alternatives to cash... [12 Mar 2007]
Oyster and e-money credit cards coming to London
News Barclaycard, Transport for London (TfL) and Visa have teamed up to put contactless payments and Oyster card functionality together on the capital's plastic. The bank will do a live trial early next year with a view to rolling out the 'wave and pay... [13 Dec 2006]
Plastic for the people - cash ditched for cards
News People are spending more money with plastic cards than ever before, new research has revealed. According to figures from banking industry body Apacs, consumers spent a record level of £26.4bn per month via plastic cards in the first half of 2006. [01 Aug 2006]
Plastic fantastic - the future of credit cards
News What's important about plastic is the payments infrastructure it has created - it doesn't matter if a purchase is made on a mobile phone, over the internet or wirelessly in a shop - your flexible friend is at its heart. [04 Jul 2006]
Photos: The top 10 gadgets for business travellers
Photo It's a black opaque piece of plastic that you clip to the screen of your laptop. Another point to bear in mind: 3G data cards are fiendishly useful abroad but also fiendishly expensive. When you need to get your laptop online, data cards could be... [26 May 2006]
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